I want to install some uplights on the front of our house this spring. I'm not sure where they should be placed. I have copied a picture of the front view. Could someone please help me determine where I should place the lights so I can determine how many I need to buy? Not sure why, but the site will not let me upload my photo
There’s a 1MB file size maximum. I would try to crop out everything except for the facade of your house and then try to send that. There’s also drag and drop sites online (like https://tinypng.com/) that will compress your image files. Finally, most previous posts here include images of users’ properties including lighting recommendations. HTH
Thank you. I was able to resize and upload my photo. Please help me with an uplight design for my home. I greatly appreciate it. Also, I am wondering if the cost difference between the kits at Costco are a downgrade in quality from kits bought directly from Volt.com?
Hi, Jdlynch. Fellow landscape lighting enthusiast here. I took the liberty of diagramming your photo to suggest one possible approach to illuminating the facade of your house. Depending on the areas and features of your house you want to highlight, there’s any number of ways to create a coherent lighting plan. In my sample plan, we’re uplighting the brickwork and stonework in multiple sections of your facade. You could easily omit two or three of the lights and still have a compelling and coherent plan. You could also opt instead for soffit lights that will project light downward rather than upward. You could even create a plan that includes some combination of those lighting techniques. As far as I know, there’s no difference in quality between the kits sold at Costco vs those sold on VOLT’s site. I sometimes equate these kits to purchasing the base model of a car. When you buy a base model, you usually can’t later add certain features (ex. A/C, power windows, heated seats, etc) that come standard on a much higher trim line. These are high quality lighting kits as sold but the tradeoff is that they sometimes lack the customizability you’ll get if you purchase your transformer, fixtures, lamps, and other equipment à la carte. If you’re someone who wants precise control over the final look of your lighting plan, you’ll likely want to upgrade your system down the road. HTH
@Mesodude2 Thank you immensely! Can I ask a clarifying question? Are the points (bottom) of each "V" a single light fixture? If so, how do I create the wider V you have shown at the double window at right of porch?
The graphics are meant to simply indicate which section of the house facade is being illuminated. In that particular area, there’s at least four different ways you could light that section. One is to use a single floodlight. You could also use a single spotlight with a wide beam spread bulb (60° to 110°), you could put two spotlights there, or you could put a well light there. Each of these approaches would create a slightly different effect. HTH
